Starting this afternoon, I will be traveling with 24 of the country’s top garden bloggers as they tour central Arkansas for the P. Allen Smith Garden2Blog Event. I took these pictures in April 2009. I can’t wait to see how the place looks now! The following is the information that was released today: On April …

If you’ve followed my blogs, tweets and facebook posts, you know that I love to fish. I’ve spent a lot of time recently fishing for crappie and stripers in lakes around the Arkansas Ozarks and fishing for trout in Arkansas Ozark streams and rivers. Recently, I visited one of our central Arkansas lakes, Lake Maumelle, with guide …

Last weekend I participated in the Ouachita Adventure Race at Mountain Harbor Resort in Joplin, AR and it was just that…an adventure! The Ouachita Mountains are the perfect place to hold an adventure race. In this region of the state you’ll find flowing rivers and streams, clear lakes and plenty of woodlands for rigorous hikes. The race combines …

This November, during the Arkansas: The State of Fishing media event I had the fortune of meeting fishing pro Tom Neustrom. He recently wrote this story about the White River. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did! The River of Many Returns By Tom Neustrom There is much written about the large …

I’m a foodie and love to attend just about any culinary event I can find. So, I was thrilled when the details of the 2011 Chefs’ Ball were announced. I’m especially excited about this year’s event because I know several of the students and instructors that attend and teach at Pulaski Technical Culinary School. One great thing about Arkansas is that …

The only thing better than wetting a line in one of Arkansas’s Diamond Lakes is doing it in style, fully outfitted with the hottest fishing gear on earth. Oh, and then there’s the chance of winning the trip and all the gear by simply entering The Natural State’s Family Fishing Sweepstakes. Arkansas Parks and Tourism …

Kerry Kraus NaturalStateBlogger@gmail.com All the hard work that’s going on over in Jacksonville on Reed’s Bridge is being rewarded. The Reed’s Bridge Battlefield Preservation Society has been awarded the “Outstanding Service in Neighborhood Preservation” from the Historic Preservation Alliance of Arkansas. The honor recognizes “an activity or project that has made a significant contribution to …